Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough..

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man..

They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's..

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat..

Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout..

There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs..

But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was bo….

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep y….

Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong..

If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the….

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of ….

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep..

Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures.….

The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone..

Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the pri….

Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his b….

Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absol….

With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad..

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in..

White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love. Still hangs the h….

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use..